American psychologists

common issue between African Americans and Caucasians. Early on, the government legitimized the belief of inequality. According to the Smithsonian, a world renowned archive of historical data, “Beginning in the 1890s, southern states enacted literacy tests, poll taxes, elaborate registration systems, and eventually whites-only Democratic Party primaries to exclude black voters” (Smithsonian National Museum of American History). This system meant that African Americans could not vote and be…

every racial group I tested got above a 95% average. This may be due to an imbalance of data collected from each group, because the data goes against other experiments similar to this one; one experiment being the work by Kent State University psychologist Daniel T. Levin, phD, who had suggested people recognize certain faces by the color of their skin and others by their individual features, which semi-relates to how my experiment was designed. I reject my hypothesis partially because all…

to learn more about black psychology and the history behind it. As far as the pictures and the narration about them I can only stay humble and remember that times have changed, but there are also other problems that have arose and we as African Americans have to deal with that we will always refer back to our roots. I don’t agree with everything that I have witnessed, but I also have to continue to stay on the right path by standing up for what I know is right as well as becoming more…

Aziz Ansari, an Indian-American actor and comedian, is best known for his role as Tom Haverford on the NBC series Parks and Recreation. He was invited as a comedian to talk on the American television show “Saturday Night Live,” a day after the inauguration of Donald Trump. In his performance, Ansari discusses several factors that contribute to rising racial problems that appear after Donald Trump’s election as president. He points out that a certain group of people, “lowercase KKK”, is rising…

colorism, and how European colonization has greatly affected the social stratification of ethnicity and color. Psychologist Dr. Tifase Webb-Msemaji states, During the time that they were enslaved, there were others [children] who had been either from birth or, from rape from slave owners […] somewhat different in complexion than others. These children…

Racism, a word that we usually use to describe a person who believes in racial differences in character, intelligence or color of skin, or as Carolyn Gregoire in an HuffPost Science interview with Dr. Pricilla Dass, a psychologist at Georgetown University and the Chicago School of Professional Psychology clearly stated: “Racism has to do with thinking of oneself as being different from other people. Racists see others as being less than them, and think of themselves as being superior” (Gregoire)…

Dick Diver is a handsome American psychologist. They decide to invite their friends and other Americans staying at the resort over to their place for a celebration including Rosemary Hoyt, a beautiful eighteen-year-old actress on vacation with her mother. The Divers are graceful, sophisticated, intelligent people…

In the Book That means old yesterday Stay Patton audiences were white Upper/Middle class people as well as the African American Community. Stacy purpose for targeting these people because she want them to come together as a whole to understand how history, culture, stereotypes ,discrimination physical, and mental abuse that African America’s Has stuffed from. She does this by talking about the working thought-out explaining history and try to fits the things that has made the separation between…

“[…] Stereotypes blur our vision and corrupt the imagination.” (Shaheen, Jack. The Media’s Image of Arabs.) For example, an African American male athlete is far more likely to be featured on the cover of a sports magazine verses a white male athlete. Another common example is when a white police officer shoots a black man. The media is quick to portray the white cop as a murderer and…

W.E.B. Du Bois and Luke Sawyer each identify the pursuit of individual economic gain as chief among the challenges facing African Americans in their struggle for racial equality at the turn of the twentieth century. Du Bois, a political giant and literary master, disdainfully associates the hunger for profit and position with vulgarity, pretense, and ostentation—all qualities that carry with them inflections of the lower classes and poor taste—and further links these “money-getters” with…